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Occupy-Style Protest Interrupts Commencement Ceremony

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.30.2013 | College

Cooper Union's Wednesday commencement ceremony drew perhaps more symbols of Occupy Wall Street-style activism than any other graduation in recent year...

College Students Occupy President's Office

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.08.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- A group of students at Cooper Union took over the college president's office Wednesday to protest a decision to begin charging tuition for...

Famed New York College Will No Longer Be Free

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.24.2013 | College

Cooper Union in New York City will begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in a century, the school's Board of Trustees announced Tues...

Rising Costs Erode Moral Pillar Of NYC's Famed Free College

AP | JAKE PEARSON | Posted 03.01.2013 | College

NEW YORK -- For more than a century, Cooper Union has been a one-of-a-kind meritocracy: Open to any student qualified to walk through its doors. For f...

Cooper Union Students Come Down After Week Barricaded In Building

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.10.2012 | College

Exactly one week after barricading themselves on the 8th floor of the Cooper Union Foundation Building, 11 of the school's art students officially end...

Tyler Kingkade

WATCH: Students March Through New York For Small School's Struggle

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.08.2012 | College

NEW YORK -- When George Caffentzis was teaching philosophy in 1976 at the City University of New York system, none of his students had to pay tuition...

Tyler Kingkade

Cooper Union Trustee Lashes Out At Student Protesters

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.07.2012 | College

NEW YORK -- A growing movement of student activism at Cooper Union in New York has enraged the head of the school's alumni association. Peter Cafie...

WATCH: Student Barricaded Inside School: We're Not Leaving

The Huffington Post | John Stephens | Posted 12.07.2012 | College

A group of 11 Cooper Union students and one student journalist from The New School have barricaded themselves in the 8th floor of the Cooper Union Fou...

WATCH: Pizza Pulley System Delivers Food To Occupying Students

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.06.2012 | College

A group of Cooper Union alums on Tuesday decided they wanted to help out the students who have barricaded themselves inside the school's Foundation Bu...

Tyler Kingkade

Cooper Union Occupation Gains Momentum As Administration Stays Quiet (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.05.2012 | College

NEW YORK -- Eleven students at Cooper Union who have been barricaded in the school's Foundation Building since Monday afternoon to protest the school'...

Students Barricade Themselves To Protest Tuition

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.05.2012 | College

A group of Cooper Union students have barricaded themselves inside a college building in lower Manhattan for the past 24 hours to protest the school's...

In the End, We're All Entrepreneurs

John Pavley | Posted 02.01.2013 | Technology
John Pavley

In my 25 years of working I've only really seen one kind of business: the high-risk and entrepreneurial kind. Being an entrepreneur is everybody's business, no matter whether you are on the bottom of the totem pole or at the top of heap.

Art School Survival Guide

Posted 08.24.2012 | Arts

Telling the world you are going to art school is no walk in the park. Get ready for the exasperated sigh, the onslaught of unsavory statistics and the...

Best/Worst Brands of the Week: Micro-Shorts, Cool Science, Blendr, Dream-Making

Alona Elkayam | Posted 08.04.2012 | Style
Alona Elkayam

Escorted by a group of seemingly MI6 trained nuns, Dr. George Lombardi flew to Calcutta to save a Nobel Laureate’s life. In the auditorium ...

A Free College Is Free No More (Sort of) -- What That Means to You

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 07.10.2012 | Detroit
Patrick O'Connor

About two weeks ago, Cooper Union announced its plans to start charging tuition for some of its graduate students. Is this really a big deal in the college world? No and yes.

Grace Lee Boggs Talks About The Revolutionary Life

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 06.02.2012 | Arts

Grace Lee Boggs is approaching the ripe old age of 97, but she doesn't seem to be tiring a bit these days. It could be argued that there hasn't been a...

East Village Coming And Goings: 7-Eleven And Lakeside Lounge

Posted 04.16.2012 | New York

7-Eleven's plans to expand and subsequently destroy the city with 14 stores in 2012 is in full gear and their latest storefront has officially landed ...

Saving a Bookshop With Local Love and Considerable National Help

Pearl Korn | Posted 01.14.2012 | New York
Pearl Korn

This is a lovely, pre-holiday tale that could have captured the imagination of Charles Dickens. It is the story of a little, independent, different kind of bookshop that has served an artist and working-class community for 34 years.

Christopher Mathias

St. Mark's Bookshop Will NOT Be Closing

HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 01.03.2012 | New York

The St. Mark's Bookshop will stay open, after all. At a press conference outside the store Thursday morning, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stri...

10 Free Colleges

Posted 01.02.2012 | College

With college costs reaching insurmountable levels, tuition-free colleges are more important than ever. But even they are not immune to volatile econom...

Cooper Union's Radical Consideration

Posted 01.01.2012 | College

Cooper Union, the much-revered arts school known for being free of charge, might soon require students to pay tuition for the first time since the col...

100-Year-Old Artist's First Retrospective

Posted 11.16.2011 | Arts

The art world can be a fickle beast. A young artist may find themselves rapidly ascending to the top only to feel the sting of Warhol's '15 minutes of...

Astoria Characters: The Memory Keeper

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 08.14.2011 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

Saving nearly a century and a half of family memorabilia is a remarkable feat. "I'm a keeper," 86-year-old Bea Frish says.

Festival Of Ideas Kicks Off In NYC

Marina Cashdan | Posted 07.03.2011 | Arts
Marina Cashdan

This week a major cultural initiative will be launched, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, coordinated by the New Museum and scores of cultura...

Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation

Selby Drummond | Posted 06.05.2011 | Arts
Selby Drummond

As sentimental as it sounds, the BHQF's most valuable offering is a community that admits, unabashedly, its love for art, and recommits itself to art daily despite all of the competition.